Must I always be skating on thin ice for you all?: A poem 

I have always been skating on thin ice 

Somehow, always finding the rectitude 

not to have my soul fall into the freezing void 

This eternal tapdance that we all have partaken 

is not my doing; I have never been a partner 

to crime, though the gunshots, you keep hearing, are mine!   

I am not the opposite end of sunshine 

And I have love, and lose it to a distasteful clime 

You may all, then, dance to the music of slime 

But I am sublime music that catches you in time 

Did you all know you are pickings, when 

you have been prone to believe you are reaping? 

Should you all swear by evil before you think twice? 

I am here to ruin the hegemony of his device! 

So, you can blame me all you want; for the  

suffering I go through to make each generation subjudice! 

Do you ever scantily listen to me in my patience, 

Or when I should have you all falling dominoes in my impatience? 

Has it ever occurred to you all that I should be  

very very  angry and petulant, invoking violence? 

Or should I petrify in this untoward persecution (of me) 

when the treachery (against me) doesn’t seem (to you all) unseemly? 

And you rather believe in the convenience of the lies than in my truth 

As if I should silently speak a sense that you all 

don’t gather or care to heed, and then keep sacrificing (for eternity) 

everything I stand for, my dignity and integrity!